Veganism

[The Grand Nudger]

The only cat-truth that I know is that those little four-legged sociopaths don't do morality. Give a cat a moral quandary and it'll provide you with a culinary solution. It's a fascinating glimpse into the reality that human morality arises from the fact that we're a social animal. Cats (and dogs) have completely different social structures.

They do, actually, specifically in the subjective/relative critical sense.  They're not actually legit pyschos doing whatever strikes their fancy.  They have a predictably mammalian social order that might otherwise be known as a cat morality...and their structures are not so far removed from our own, which is probably a part of why they make suitable domesticates for us. All three of us are capable of considering some of the things that we, as humans, are capable of contemplating. A hard line has to be placed between descriptive and metaethical tenses when we consider this relationship ofc. Cats, imo, aren't even capable of knowing better - of that sort of consideration or granularity. That's one difference that answers the opq, isnt it? We're both remarkably kind to to our progeny, despite their being edible. We're all kin selectors.

So when a cat tortures some poor mole, eats the asshole first...slowly...I don't think it's because the cat is specifically cruel....but if a person did the same...I'd have questions....

The point, though, is that a cat truth, like a moral truth, would be true by any other name. It is true or false for the same reasons that any other truth assertion is true or false. We may have suspiscions about moral truths...and they may be justified...but if so, we have equally justified suspicions about any other truth statement. Up to and including whether 1 and 1 make 2.